How to Use telephony in a Sentence

telephony

noun
  • In part, this is simply a function of the way mobile telephony works.
    — Longreads, 14 June 2017
  • With so many employees working from home right now, the market for telephony headsets is on fire.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The rise of videochat also amplified the decline in telephony.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2022
  • And when that occurred, video telephony became simply a software problem.
    — Thomas Wiegand, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2011
  • And yet the country’s experience with telephony offers a glimmer of hope.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Jan. 2017
  • Confirm your telephony setup has multiple lines or is set up on VoIP.
    — Adam Ahmad, Forbes, 7 May 2021
  • Building an affordable service that works everywhere on the planet has been the dream of mobile telephony since its early days.
    — Yang Jie, wsj.com, 24 Apr. 2023
  • For in every other realm, the country’s largest companies have midwifed this societal retreat from telephony.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Yet the quests for computer networks and mobile telephony weren't motivated chiefly by good intentions.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 June 2014
  • The company coined the term hardware-as-a-service because Zoom expects to disrupt nearly every area of telephony.
    — Beth Kindig, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
  • In terms of sounding human, the restaurant demonstration was all being done with standard telephony gear and the ultra-crappy voice quality that comes with it.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 27 June 2018
  • In the early days of telephony, rotary and landline phones dominated households, and address books were common fixtures by the kitchen telephone.
    — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In the era when communications meant telephony, every call went through, and your phone company could not cut off your call or edit the content of your conversations.
    — Verne Kopytoff, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Not just communications systems such as telephony and news media, but vehicles, power plants, and banking systems.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2022
  • From there, Huawei expanded into selling and manufacturing the guts of telephony.
    — Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2020
  • The situation today is reminiscent of the telephony system back in the ‘50s.
    — Adi Ruppin, Forbes, 11 June 2021
  • Monitor the behavior of initial adopters to understand the implications on face-to-face, telephony and online channels.
    — Dax Grant, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Before its breakup, AT&T had a monopoly on long-distance telephony, local calling and all equipment that could be plugged into a phone jack.
    — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The evolution of mobile telephony has been a remarkable journey, marked by significant leaps in technology and a profound impact on our lives.
    — Timothy Papandreou, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • To date, only clients of Telefónica’s Movistar telephony service could access the offer.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023
  • If someone joins a Zoom meeting through a regular phone call, for example, Zoom can't extend its encryption to the legacy telephony network.
    — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 3 Apr. 2020
  • In Russia, a rash of Telegram account breaches has led some researchers to believe that hackers are gaining access through telephony network hacking.
    — Wired, 14 Dec. 2019
  • The Android emergency call system will now only consider simpler telephony providers that plug into the default phone app, like your carrier account.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Pros & Cons Grasshopper is a unique telephony product for small businesses that want to offer one (or several) business phone numbers for all employees to use.
    — John Brandon, PC Magazine, 17 June 2026
  • Estonia—the birthplace of Skype, an internet-telephony app—has been a leader in digitising public services, such as filing taxes and voting.
    — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
  • In the Vail model, the customer pays a monthly fee for telephony service, and the service provider assumes responsibility for operations.
    — Yaakov Stein, Forbes, 15 July 2022
  • The ’not-an-iPhone’ media player with almost all the benefits of the iPhone without the telephony circuits is currently in its seventh generation.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 26 May 2021
  • With only one in five having access to broadband and only a third having access to mobile telephony in SSA, the market opportunity is there.
    — Radu Magdin, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • This early version of internet telephony — the technology that came to be known as voice over IP — helped pave the way for the delivery of voice, and eventually video, across the internet.
    — Katie Hafner, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Railways, electricity power grids, telephony, air travel, early-stage computing, the internet and the advent of the mobile phone — followed by the now-ubiquitous smartphone — are examples of such leaps.
    — Mark Cameron, Forbes, 11 June 2021

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